"Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying……" — Stanley Schmidt
"Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin."
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20 Quotes by Stanley Schmidt
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I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent,…
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Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't…
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Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking…
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There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully…
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because…
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When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes,…
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes…
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it,…
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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering…
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What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we…
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background,…
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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in…
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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